[Logo of CBRL Group, Inc.]                              Post Office Box 787
                                                        Lebanon, Tennessee
                                                                37088-0787
                                                        Phone 615.443.9869

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CBRL Group, Inc.
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                                                 Contact: Lawrence E. White
                                                          Senior Vice President/
                                                          Finance and Chief
                                                          Financial Officer




                CBRL GROUP, INC. TO SIMULCAST PRESENTATION AT THE
                   JOHNSON RICE & COMPANY CONSUMER CONFERENCE


LEBANON,  Tenn.  (October 18, 2005) -- CBRL Group, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq:
CBRL) today  announced  that it will be presenting at the Johnson Rice & Company
Fifth Annual Consumer Conference, which is being held on October 24 and 25, 2005
at The Houstonian Hotel, Houston, Texas.

     There will be an on-line  simulcast of the  Company's  presentation,  which
begins at 12:15 p.m. Eastern Time (11:15 a.m. Central Time) on Tuesday,  October
25, 2005,  available at the  Company's  web site,  www.cbrlgroup.com.  An online
replay of the presentation will be available through November 8, 2005. A webcast
of the  Company's  presentation  will also be  available  over the  Internet  at
http://www.wsw.com/webcast/jr2/cbrl/.

     The Company's Chairman,  Chief Executive Officer and President,  Michael A.
Woodhouse  and Senior  Vice  President,  Finance  and Chief  Financial  Officer,
Lawrence  E.  White,  will be  speaking  at the  conference.  To access the live
simulcast of the  presentation,  please go to the Company's web site at least 15
minutes  prior  to the  presentation  to  download  and  install  any  necessary
software.

     Headquartered in Lebanon,  Tennessee,  CBRL Group, Inc.  presently operates
536 Cracker  Barrel Old Country Store  restaurants  and gift shops located in 41
states and 129 company-operated and 23 franchised Logan's Roadhouse  restaurants
in 19 states.


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